In order to keep her father's spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story-the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker.īut the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn't long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. This "beguiling" ( Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart-a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker's apprentice-"perfectly aligns with the cultural moment" ( The Providence Journal) and " shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be" ( The New York Times Book Review).
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